Juggling between having a full-time office job, doing freelance work, and taking a university certificate course had caused my skin a lot of stress in the past month. Thanks to Flawless by Friday, I was given the opportunity to spare some time each day for a week to lay back and pamper myself a little.

I remember receiving a newsletter from Holt Renfrew about Juice Beauty’s launch event back in early July. About a week after, Gwyneth Paltrow’s appearance at the Bloor Street flagship was all over local media! I’m not one to obsess over organic or natural products, but when their counter manager reached out and asked if I’d like try out some products at their national makeup artist event, I thought to myself – why not?

Her Majesty’s Pleasure is a dream come true for girly Instagrammers. It’s a stunning spa-meets-bar hybrid on King West with all the white marble and natural sunlight you need for your lifestyle flat-lays.

I was in a rut with my skincare routine for a few weeks in the summer. I used whatever I could find on my bathroom counter and stopped paying attention to what worked and what didn’t. That left my skin feeling rough and bumpy, and I knew I needed something powerful to fix the result of my negligence.